The world may finally be ready for Surface Pro X (review)

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[JogBird]

with AMD on the rise, Apple making their own chips, and MS' move to ARM... now, would be a good time to sell Intel stock

[IxChipmunkxI]

Let me get this straight, this year's Surface Pro X is better because Apple is now doing the same thing with their CPU and using a mobile chip....

[thebasketballhistorian]

Love the hardware.

But it's a hard sell for me because:
1. There are so few ARM-based Windows programs.
2. The price is too high to justify it as mostly a browser/streaming computer.
3. While it does have 32-bit x86 emulation, it's not as fast as running it on a real x86 computer.

[lufthansabird]

One day.... There will be a surface that can handle Microsoft Flight BUT NOT NOW

[DanielHarrisCodes]

Thing is, the Pro X isn't even slow - The emulation of certain apps does make it feel slow. It's actually faster than my i7 SB2 in a lot of situations, based on my personal experience and not benchmarks etc. It's not going to be your everyday PC if you run a lot of legacy software (I do) but anybody who's a manager or similar, works on a lot of documents, spends all day emailing etc. then it's a great device.

[christiansmith]

Solidworks, Altium, Lightroom, HFSS... theres a lot of software out there that still requires native Intel infrastructure. Still don't think the Surface Pro X is ready for serious users, I just wish they could take that form factor and put Surface Pro 7 specs in it.

[gehteuchnichtsan]

The thumbnail was exactly while the auro-rotation animation of the surface, so it looked like it had big bezels like the surface go. If this was a clickbait it really worked.

[DannerBanks]

Why didn't you speak about the 64 bit app emulation?

[wendelynmusic]

Everyone complains about the keyboard but the majority of companies are doing the same thing and Apple's add on keyboard is almost twice the price and where's the complaint about their keyboard? it gets old people complaining about a non issue. Everyone looking to buy a Surface Pro and an Ipad Pro already knows this and takes it into account. find something else to whine about. BTW my pro X has been awesome over the last year. the few issues I had in the beginning are gone and I've been super happy. I will be even happier when they finally follow through with 64bit emulation and Adobe actually does what they said they were going to do and puts out their products for arm. Of course I don't draw so I don't care except for editing pdf's. I also find it hilarious that you think Apple going to ARM is what will make the difference. People keep underestimating Microsoft. MS put the Surface Pro and suddenly the market is flooded with 2 in 1's ... Pc's start moving to ARM, and Microsoft throws its support behind the move with the PRO X and suddenly Apple says they're going to the MAC to ARM.... seems to me you have it backwards there buddy.

[BrohemianLifestyle]

Here's to more surface products with slim bezels... Hopefully

[screenPhiles]

This is obviously a review before they actually tested a laptop with the Apple M1 processor. And most people don't buy computers for the processor. What they want is a computer that runs the software they use regularly and does so with alacrity, with good battery life. If it does that the average person won't care if there's a hamster powering it.

[jamess.]

having tons of mass market arm based windows programs are gonna take years. I'll hold out til then.

[chfgn]

Microsoft needs to do whatever is necessary to help Adobe finish their ARM port of Creative Cloud for Windows. They promised us Fresco was coming "soon" a year ago with the rest of the suite following eventually and we haven't heard a peep since. Surface Pro X would be a dream machine for me with native versions of Edge, Office, and Creative Cloud, but I really need all three of those before I can say emulation is good enough for everything else.

[IrfanRoslan]

Too pricey for a Microsoft tablet running on a chip found in smartphones. Better go for Pro 7.

[ajfromca]

I’m not sure if I buy in the main reason “we” are more ready for the surface pro X is due to apple copying Microsoft in interest in the ARM platform.

[bradavon]

It's so odd reviewers are giving positive reviews to the Pro X when nothing has changed. The Pro X is still as wonderful or still as not suitable as it was 12 months ago. Even 64-bit support isn't going to have much of a real world impact as those tend to be high performance apps.

[Brinta]

You can hardly call this a review. He’s trying to make some point about ARM-based chips in laptops, but meanwhile I haven’t learnt much at all about the laptop itself.

[MdKnightam]

About the compatibility issues.
I still dont get it, i wonder what people run on these machines anyway?

I bet 90% of people use their computer for Office Applications ie (word, powerpoint, excel, outlook) then multimedia like Youtube that is it.

Not sure what is the compatibility issue there.

[umah.]

Tbh, not really interested in Windows anymore apart from gaming.

[DanielHarrisCodes]

Are people still complaining about the Surface keyboard and pen being a separate many of us these pens, keyboards and chargers are like phone chargers which companies are starting to stop including (mostly to save money but it does also save the planet)